I haven't blogged in a while. I haven't really had the desire to and really haven't had very much at all to say but for some reason tonight I am in the mood to kind of ramble about whatever comes to mind.
I am beginning to think that there seriously should be a rehab center(s) for people addicted to their cell phones! I think the whole cell phone addiction era has gotten WAY out of hand people! I have a cell phone. I rarely ever leave home without it because I do have two small children and I very sadly lack the ability to change a tire so I have it. I also text occasionally and because in my life sometimes it is easier to text than to have a long drawn out phone conversation but the absolute addiction is beyond my realm of understanding. I also really enjoy an uninterrupted daily conversation to my mom on the way home everyday just to get catch up before I get home where I have no time for idle chit chat. I feel like a very old fuddy duddy but I think "young people" today should maybe put the phone down and I don't know...talk to their friends face to face or stop ignoring the people who are in front of their face to constantly mess with their phones. I honestly think that it is really beginning to affect some people's real people skills. Okay enough about that.
I am so glad that I have recovered from my horrible HORRIBLE sickness that plagued me for like 8 straight days. Tonsillitis and strep is NO FUN FOR ADULTS!!!!! I was so very miserable and began to get so very depressed when I didn't get any better after days....and days....and days!!!! I am so thankful for all of the wonderful people who helped me out with taking care of my children and taking care of me. Jamey was unbelievably patient and kind the whole time and my mom and mother-in-law were a Godsend. I was sick from the Saturday night before Christmas and finally feel 100% as of yesterday. When I finally went to the emergency room because I was a sobby mess who cried on the doctor due to 4 straight days of unbreakable fever and no sleep. Thank goodness I will never see that particular doctor again because I was a mess. If I had known it would take several more days after treatment to get better I would have gone on day 1!
My grandmother-in-law is in town and she has obviously taken me up as a pet project because here is a list of things she has done for me since being in town: She was here all day yesterday and her and her my mother-in-law kept the kids here at our house today while Jamey and I worked....so in two days she has:
-Vacuumed out every vent in my house
-Vacuumed my stairs...all 17 of them...I have only done that like 4 times since being in the house...I usually just give them a little sweep occasionally.
-Cleaned my microwave inside and out
-Cleaned my stove...am I the ONLY person on the planet who didn't know that a stove top on a regular stove lifts up? That was embarrassing. It was NASTY under there....I am assuming that the person who owned the house before us didn't know that lifted either because I don't think all of that mess could have been from us.
-Bought me a new dust mop and one of each of her brands of cleaning supplies.
-Took down and washed my living room curtains.
-Caught up all of my laundry
-Put away all of my laundry
-Encouraged me to take off my sofa cushion covers and wash them (I have been too chicken to do this because if they shrunk or if I just couldn't get them back on we would be sofa and loveseat-less and too poor to buy more...so for the three years we have had that furniture I have been spot cleaning them and dreaming of them being clean.....I feel like I have brand new furniture WOOOO HOOOOO!)
-Washed my dishes twice
-Cleaned my ceiling fans
-Wiped off the tops of each door frame
-Vacuumed under all of my couch cushions
The list above does not include all of the things she directed/ordered Jamey and I to do yesterday as well. She is a work horse and she is 77! I feel bad/embarrassed that she felt my house was in such need of her help but really she just loves to be busy and she loves feeling like she is helping. She never sits still and has a magical way of not making you feel like you are a complete and utter failure as a housekeeper/wife/mother...if it were ANYONE else I would have felt that way but she we just laughed and worked happily together yesterday...I do feel bad that she worked on my house today without my help but I didn't ask her to by no means. She is a one of a kind and when I got home today I felt like the Merry Maids had visited my house!
I am suffering from picture uploading withdrawals!!!!! We STILL do not have our new computer!!!! This old spare is okay for checking e-mail and blogging but I think if I do anything involving pictures it may send it over the edge of existence so I won't. I have so many pictures on my camera that I am dying to view and edit!!!!
Have you ever had a decision to make and you honestly do not know what to do? I have something like that right now and I am stumped!!!! I just cannot seem to come to a decision one way or another. I know what I should decide but will that be best in the long run? The fear of possible regret is quite strong sometimes. Normally I do not have such indecision and fear about such things but in this case I do. This is one of those times when I kind of wish I had someone to say tell me exactly what to do. The pros and cons list that I have are almost perfectly balanced and like I said I am stumped!
Lately I have come to really long for a really close friend. Having your spouse as a friend is wonderful in so many ways but to have a really close girlfriend is such a blessing and I don't feel that I really have that. I do have friends and I am very close to a lot of people but I don't really feel like I have a "sister" friend. I have always been extremely close to my cousin Laura and Jessica and I were very best friends for years and years and still are very close despite the distance if that makes any sense but I don't have a daily best friend. I would love to have a friend who I talk to every day or several times each week and got to see often....another mother of small children would be nice. If you have that you are very lucky and you should nurture and cherish that friendship. I think that some women really don't need that sort of relationship in their lives but I think I do. I guess I should hold best friend auditions. :-)
I better go....I didn't realize it had gotten so late.
Later Gaters!!!!
Wow, Grandma needs to move in with you! That's awesome! I am going through picture withdrawls too...it stinks. I am so ready for a new computer that is fast enough to run photoshop!
ReplyDeleteI don't have a daily best friend either. All of my friends are so busy with their own families and they don't seem like they "need" a best girlfriend...their husbands and kids seem to fill that need. It makes me feel selfish for wanting a bestie :-) I guess that's why I blog so much, I am attention starved, LoL.
That illness sounds miserable. I am sorry that you have been so sick!
ReplyDeleteIt would certainly take unique kind of person to come into my house and clean without me feeling like a horrible housekeeper. I need a Nannie Annie in my life, because the one time my MIL started cleaning my house, I started yelling and crying and kicked her out. :-) But my mom hired it done once, and it didn't offend me at all. Weird.
I'm that woman who is too busy for a daily best friend. I used to have one, and I hope to someday have one again, but not today. My mom has an identical twin sister, and it is hard to think of one moment growing up that she was not on the phone or visiting with her. Maybe it's that she was always complaining to her about her life or whispering things that I wasn't supposed to hear, but I always felt ignored. I love my aunt dearly, and in a way I am jealous of the intimacy they share, but I always felt that my mother's family came second to her, so I always feel guilty about being on the phone when my kids are around. But I feel the need to maintain my friendships so that when my kids are a little older and less labor-intensive, I can have that kind of relationship again, because besties are great!